Final Year Undergraduate Results
You have a final degree results of NA Final
You may be given the option of sitting your examination in August. Your student visa should be valid to October 2011. If this is the case you can remain in the UK and sit examinations. If your visa expires before the re-sit exams you must either leave the UK or make a valid immigration application before your current visa expires.
You have a final degree result of Fail Final
You will have one further opportunity to re-sit your examination(s) in the next academic session. Your student visa should be valid to October 2011.
There are four ways in which you may re-sit your examinations and each option will effect your immigration status in a different way:
- Re-sit module(s) as an external student in both autumn and spring semester
If you do this then you must return to your home country. The autumn examination period will start in January 2012. UKBA regulations do not allow for those in the UK on a student visa to remain in the country if the gap between the start of the semester and re-sit examination exceeds 60 days. You must leave the UK before your current visa expires and apply for a new visa to return for the resit. After re-sitting exams in the autumn examination period you will need to return home and come back to the UK for the spring examination period that will start in May 2012.
Alternatively, you can contact Registry Services to ask if the exams can be taken in your home country.
- Re-sit module(s) as an external student in either the autumn or spring semester
If you do this then you must return to your home country. The autumn examination period will start in January 2012 and the spring examination period will start in May 2012. UKBA regulations do not allow for those in the UK on a student visa to remain in the country if the gap between the start of the semester and re-sit examination exceeds 60 days. You must leave the UK before your current visa expires and apply for a new visa to return for the re-sit.
Alternatively, you can contact Registry Services to ask if the exams can be taken in your home country.
- Repeat module(s) as an internal student in both the autumn and the spring semester
The academic session will start in September 2011. Your student visa should be valid until October 2011. As you will be attending teaching sessions in both the autumn and spring semester you can apply to extend your visa for the academic year.
- Repeat module(s) as an internal student in either the autumn or the spring semester
You can apply for a visa extension for the semester in which you will be registered as an internal student and attending teaching sessions. UKBA regulations do not allow for those in the UK on a student visa to remain in the country when not studying. You must return to your home country during the semester in which you are not attending.
You have a final degree result of WD Final
You will no longer continue to study at the University of Sheffield. If you intend to study at another insitution, you should contact them for immigration advice. If you will not be registering for any further study in the UK, you should make arrangements to leave the UK as soon as possible.
Medical and dental students
If your course involves non-standard term dates and you will be re-sitting examinations it is important that you seek immigration advice so that you understand any immigration implications and do not do anything that you result in you breaking the terms and conditions of your student visa.